{"id":31622,"date":"2019-06-28T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=31622"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:46:22","slug":"irish-examiner-toyah-on-40-years-in-showbusiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/irish-examiner-toyah-on-40-years-in-showbusiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Examiner: Toyah on 40 Years in Showbusiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/breakingnews\/lifestyle\/features\/the-high-priestess-of-punk-on-40-years-in-showbusiness-ahead-of-irish-gig-933073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/breakingnews\/lifestyle\/features\/the-high-priestess-of-punk-on-40-years-in-showbusiness-ahead-of-irish-gig-933073.html noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31623 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ieexaminer19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><strong>The High Priestess of Punk on 40 years in showbusiness ahead of Irish gig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Always the high priestess of punk Toyah Willcox has achieved a lot in four decades. Now at the age of 60 she still enjoys \u2018living out loud\u2019 \u2014 and makes no apologies for it, writes Lorraine Wylie<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In four decades, she\u2019s released more than 20 albums, written two books, appeared in 10 feature films and over 40 stage plays. She\u2019s also presented a number of TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>But to die-hard music fans, Toyah Willcox will always be \u2018The High priestess of punk.\u2019 Between 1979 and 1981, she released three albums, Sheep Farming in Barnet The Blue Meaning and Anthem.<\/p>\n<p>The latter hit the musical jackpot and as well as spawning hits such as \u2018I Want to Be Free\u2019 and \u2018It\u2019s A Mystery,\u2019 went on to earn her a gold disc. Now, she\u2019s ready to showcase her latest collection, \u2018In the Court of the Crimson Queen,\u2019 described as \u2018a rally cry to forever living out loud.\u2019 Ahead of her performance at the Forever Young Festival in Naas, I caught up with Toyah who told me why, at 60, she still enjoys \u2018living out loud\u2019 \u201cI think 60 is a great age,\u201d she tells me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/breakingnews\/lifestyle\/features\/the-high-priestess-of-punk-on-40-years-in-showbusiness-ahead-of-irish-gig-933073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Irish Examiner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Priestess of Punk on 40 years in showbusiness ahead of Irish gig Always the high priestess of punk Toyah Willcox has achieved a lot in four decades. Now at the age of 60 she still enjoys \u2018living out loud\u2019 \u2014 and makes no apologies for it, writes Lorraine Wylie In four decades, she\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[2233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31624,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions\/31624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}